A53678:1760
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Because they were Committed unto him in a more full, ample and unlimited manner, than either they were, or could be unto others, on Purpose that they might answer all the ends of Gods Grace towards the Church. So as he was made a King; not this or that degree or enlargement of Power was committed unto him, but all Power in Heaven and in Earth, over all the Creation of God, in all things Spiritual, Temporal and Eternal. See our Description and Delineation of this Power, on Chap. 1. ver. 2, 3. As a Prophet he did not receive this or that particular Revelation from God, but all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge were laid up in him, and he knew the whole mind and Counsel of God, as coming forth from his Divine Bosom. And as unto his Sacerdotal Office, we are now engaged in an enquiry into its especial nature, as differing from, and exalted above, whatever was committed unto any of the Sons of men, under that Name.
2. The principal Reason of the All-sufficiency of the Office-Power, and Ability of Christ, is taken from his own Person, which alone was capable of a Trust of such a Power, and able to execute it unto all the Ends of it. He alone who was God and Man in one Person, was capable of being such a King, Priest, and Prophet, as was able to save the Church unto the uttermost. Wherefore in the consideration of this Office-Power of Christ wherein all our Salvation doth depend, we have two things to attend unto. First, his Person who bears these Offices, and who alone was fit and able so to do; and secondly, the especial Nature of the Office as committed unto him. On these grounds he was Able to do infinitely more as a Priest, than all the Priests of the Order of Aaron could do. So the Apostle expresseth it in the next words.
3. He is able to save, [Greek or Hebrew]; even to save, to save also; not for this or that